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THE TERRE HAUTEyedof ait ate bewillntbintectjosefur-entsaCOAL OIL” BURIED.The Murdered Confidence Man BunedYesterday.A Strange Gathering at the Funeral His Vfafe One of the Mourners.STRANGE GATHERINGtoce9:Fife,)ickand; to was. E. loFb ling rainased ave fore, en-3 ay, otedi olpesided;dge^g-itans inlousI, a itle-ub’sendand . C.*rof,rithaDythelicecit-jay-ol). 5 be ited arreandaiislis-instiu\sMr.tteravit-piii bad y tie rec-e o'une•eet.ex-’ 11siti-r ofNDlarytwoItA.tin. ai of estT *ist-citv lisb iliss3piepet,iledX)m it is i to‘mssue*andbest':ises»licdtire nAt the Funeral of “Coal Oil Johny” Yesterday.Cincinnati Commercial.There was an odd looking crowd in the little second story office of City Undertaker Hab;g Friday afternoon. “Coal Oil Johny,” who was killed by his wife, Sfcdie Hall, in Terre Haute, last Friday, was lying in his coffin, in an adjoining room, and the people in the office, either from morbid curiosity or to pay a last tribute to a dead friend and comrade, were there to look at the discolored face in the casket, and see it carried away to burial. Seated or standing about were a number of well known bunko men, looking solemn, women of the town, looking sad,#and strangers who had no business in the place, looking curious. Sadie Hairs mother, Mrs. Thomas, sat in an adjoin-ing room weeping genuine tears. The daughter, dressed in the deepest mourning was in a hack in the street below, her little toy with her, and the curtains drawn to hide her from the peering eyes of the throng on the sidewalk. Then the little officer was cleared of all save the pall-bearers and two or three iriends, and the coffin was carried in and those who wished were told they cou'd lake a last kok at the face of John Hall. The mustache and chin beard had been cut off, and decomposition had blackened and made it repulsive. On the coffinM i • ____A 1__£•____ Iliminary examination on the ground of Jinsanity, and as there was no provisionfor the incarceration of non-resident lunatics, she was allowed to step out of Court a free woman, four days after killing her husband, and accompanied by her mother she immediately took a train for their home in this city, and arrived at No. 18 McFarland street, Mrs. Thomas’ house, yesterday morning. Sadie Hall’s face shows the marks ol a fearful nervous strain, but she doesn’t look like an insane woman by any means, he expresses a teeling of great relief at the removal of the terrible charge; but tells nothing that has not been told about bf tragic occurrence. Her prompt acquittal i9, doubtless, largely d ue to the fact that her mother hurried a.t onco to Terre JIaute on the day* of the killing, with $1,000 or more of cash, and engaged the best legaj talent obtainable.The mother of “Coal Oil Johnny,” who lives in St. Joseph, Mo., and wasnotified ot her son’s death, has not yet been heard from, and the body, which hao ai JLiabig’s, will doubtless be buried to-day. A subscription was started yesterday, among acquaintances ol the dead man, to pay the expenses of the funeral.NEW SEVENTH.Collector W. W. Carter Ordered to Take Possession of the NewSeventh DistrictOn Next Wednesday Horning, Angust 1st.The First Indiana district of Internal Revenue, known as the Evansville District, which was recently incorporated with the Terre Haute district, has been under charge of the old collector everwere four floral pieces, sent by friends of the consolidation, the new collec-^ . a /« • . 1 - . - A.__1_____ t. t# ___J i ___ • . /» 4 1un-the dead man. After the few in the room had taken a last look at the blackened features, those below were t*ld they might come up. For five or ten minutes there moved in dingle file around the coffin a strange-looking procession. Nowan old, decent-looking woman with ababy in her arms, then a coarse-looking wench in a puffy, white dress and bonnet; now a sleek-appearing fell whom a detective present stared at w interested air; then aburley farmerthe hay market, just outside, withoutcoat or vest, but baring his head as he passed the corpse. So the little procession moved around the coffin—small gamblers, prostitutes, alternating with decent people.With black crape around their hats and arms, the pall bearers, with the assistance of the undertaker, carried the coffin down stairs and placed it in the hearse. They were men who had bee» close friends of the deceased and some of his fellow-workers. The best known of them were James Rhinock, otherwise “Fagin,” “Red” Wilson, “Stormy” Truss, and Jim Spaulding. There were only three carriages in the cortege. Two contained the pall bearers and friends of the deceased, and in the third was Sadie Hall, her mother and her boy. City Missionary Mitchell wag asked to co with them, and he accompanied the party to Spring Grove, and said a few words before the body of John Hall waj lowered into the grave. Several interested persous who did not care to go out with the funeral joined.the sad party at the cemetery, and watched the last lumps of earth fall ( n the coffin that contained all that was mortaljof “Coal Oil Johnny.’Cincinnati Ncws-Journel of yesterday.The body of John B. Hall, alias Coal Oil Johnny, who wa3 murdered at Terre Haute, Ind., ny his wife, was packed in ice at Habig’s yesterday. No time has been set tor the funeral and, it is stated, the date will not be fixed until the aged mother ot’ the deceased arrives here to give instructions. She was hourly ex pe'cted yesterday afternoon, and may have arrived last night.Yesterday on^ of Hall's late associates was around among the habitues of Vine street taking up a collection ostensibly to pay HaU’sfuneral expenses.The wife of the murdered man, or in other words the murderess, who was acquitted at a preliminary hearing on the grounds of emotioual insanity, as foreshadowed by the News-Journal, came to this city yesterday in company with her mother. Both of them seem to think that Sadie Hall, the murderess in question, is to bo greatly pitied for having ex-perienced trouble, the assumption being that Sadie is the one who has been at all inconvenienced by her own bloody work.Yesterday Mrs. Thomas, Sadie’s mother, met a teteran policeman on the street, and rolling up her eyed, she began:“Oh, dear! bain’tthis been awful!” ‘‘What’s been awful?” blurted the officer.“This trouble of Sadie’a.”“1 don’t see as Sadie has had very much trouble. She didn’t do anything but stay a few dayrs in jail and eat chicken for committing a coldblooded murder. I think she got off mighty lucky.” “Yes: but she is so worried to think she can’t live long. She’s bound to die. She’s going to commit suicide.”“That’s all nonsense/’ replied the officer. “I reckon she won’t kill herself right away, will she? She has been out of jail quite* a number of hours, aud hasn’t com in it;ed suicide yet. has she?” “No: but she will, though.”“What for?” asked the policeman. “Because the loved John so hard. You know—”“Oh, bosh!” and the policeman went away in disgust.”tor being obliged to wait for the necessary papers from Washington. Major Carter received the iollowing document from Washington, yesterday, ordering him to take possession of the new district onnrxt Wednesday, August 1st.Treasury Department, Office of Internal Revenue., Washington, July 24,1883,am y?. Carter, Esq.. Collector Seventh ict, Terre Haute, Ind.Your official bond as collector of Internal Revenue for the Seventh District of Indiana, under consolidation of districts, has been received at this office andfouud to be correct.It wdl Le approved by the Hon. Solicitor of the Treasury on the first proximo, at which time, The order ot the President retaining you as collector will be forwarded.Enclosed find letter addressed to collector James C. Veatcb, of the First District of Indiana,directing him to deliver to you all books, papers and property pertaining to the Government that he may have in his possession. nIt is expected that you will enter \ipon your duty as ol.ector of the consolidated district on the morning of the first praximo, at winch time you will please execute the enclosed ©ath and forward it to this office. Revenue Agent Truri!-bu*l will be directed to superintend the transfer.Respectfully,Walter Evans, Commissioner.Mr. Trumbull will be accompanied to Evansville next Wednesday morning by Mayor Carter and his able lieutenaut Herbert Madison. Mayor Carter, will remain there several days, organizing .he new district.-,A STARTLING THEORY.A Sungestion That Contagion Way Be Spread by the Electric Telegraph.from the Pittsburg Commcreial-Gazette.Americans have been congratulating themselves that even under the most favorable circumstances the cholera now*raging in Egypt could not reach this side ot the Atlantic before the cold days of the winter would be ready to freeze it out There is a possibility that this is another case of exultation belore being free from the shadows of the timber. There is a theory held by some scientists that disease may be transmitted by electricity, and, that over the wires cholera can pass from Egypt to Europe and from Europe to America. Prof. Hardin, of Baliol college, Oxford, who is here on a visit,andan* Commercial Gazette of Yesterday.A special from Terre Haute in yesterday’s Commercial .Gazette told a surprising piece of news concerning the “Goal Oil Johnny” homicide in that city on Friday last. Sadie .Hall, the wife, who shot him dead, was acquitted at the pre-iwus asktd about this swered:“I think that a power tIRIt transmits sound, movement and heat might ^aiso transmit certain impalpable influene-e^ol disease, but this is at complete variance with the germ theory. Some have gone so far as to hold that cholera could come Irom Egypt on the regular telegraph wires, but I cannot conceive such a tning possible, in the first place the operator at the Egyptian end oi the wire would have to be suffering from cholera, whichcould hardly be if he were at work, lbe only one a fleeted, too. conceiving such a thing as this, would be the operator on that particulai line, and he could not transmit it any further, unless he should go on working his instrument when he is taken sick. Any cut otf would end the circuit by which disease might be transmitted. I don’t think ii possible that electricity can spread disease undbr any-known circumstances.”A Pittsburg physician who was asked for an opinion said: “XouciDu’t expect me to oppose the views of a man like Hardin? I should be laughed at. Allthe same I have been studyiug this newtheory and I am halt inclined to believeit. Electricity is so strange and is solittle understood that nothing about itwould surprise me. The idea about thecontagious nature of cholera, however,have changed. You could wear theclothes a cholera patient died n withouta bit of danger ami I don't think it canever become epidemic in the UnitedSlates or Europe again. It*is too easilychecked and yields too rapidly to cleanlinessCBEriCwClliOclt;Bc]s:irKcikNCo]Ttl*tfeAItrei»a\teItaiit1
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Terre Haute Weekly Gazette
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Thu, Aug 02, 1883
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